Things That Don't Make Sense About Monster High

In today’s video, I wanted to discuss some topics about the Monster High cartoons and movies that I never really understood.

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[kingdomorange]

Hey guys! Don't forget to write your thoughts and questions down in the comments below! Who knows? Maybe I'll make a part 2.

[hanawali]

The fact that Ever After High and Monster High were supposed to have a crossover but it never happened just irks me. Idk the reboots don’t make sense to me and the cancellation of EAH after ticked me off. We were robbed of what could’ve been the biggest and best thing in cartoon history. I need my closure. I’m pretty sure a lot of fans would watch both shows had they been started up again with the original plots. Idk I just feel like a piece of my childhood is missing and we were robbed of the answers we needed.

[ayaderiche]

Vampires don't age.
Read draculaura's backstory, she's not the biological daughter of Dracula, she was born human from human parents who died, dracula then turned her into a vampire to save her from the plague.
Vampires are in the undead category.

[eddie-roo]

I mean, not all cameras use mirrors, specially nowadays.
Also, Vampires do have reflections, they just aren’t reflected by silver, because silver is a pure metal.

[pompe]

In "Frights Camera Action" it didn't really bother me that nobody recognized Elissabat as Veronica. What bothered me was that Elissabat and Draculaura had been close friends in the vampire court, but Elissabat didn't react at all to seeing Draculaura walk through her door after 400 years. Draculaura hadn't changed her name or her appearance. So why didn't Elissabat react with some kind of shock or surprise, or try just a bit too obviously to hide her face from Draculaura in case she recognized Elissabat?

[randomaquino]

I love this video, but I think there are some things that I can clear up.

1. It was confirmed somewhere that Ghoulia was born a zombie. With that in mind, I think that zombies age, but not at the same pace as most mortals (I heard this *somewhere* but I can't find a source ATM)
2. Draculaura does not age. In her diary, she was born a human was turned after almost succumbing to a plage that ravaged her village. Dracula turned her in order to save her life
3. I assume Gigi is Immortal due to how genies tend to work in fiction and Rochelle is undead as... she's a rock. I imagine that Honey and Jinafire do age and die. As for how they age? I have no clue.
5. Mu guess for whether Monsters are a minority or not? Both, depending on where you go. I think that Monster High was built in the human world and the catacombs are a portal into the monster world. In the human world, monsters are a minority with a few communities in certain places and other portals into the monster world. In the monster world, places like Scaris, Hauntlywood and New Gorleans can exist.

I think most of the continuity errors are just because Mattek is lazy and forgot things later down the line as they continued to make more movies. Even so, it still makes for an interesting universe!

[Ixbran]

One character that always confused me was Neighthan Rot. He's a hybrid monster, a mix of two monster species. And he was ... half unicorn and half zombie. Thanks to his unicorn heritage he has an x-man like healing factor which makes him look like a Grey skinned human being with a unicorn horn and a tail. But his zombie genes makes it so he's got poor coordination when it comes to physical activities. Very slow to walk and super clumsy.

But this basically means somewhere out there a unicorn and a zombie got freaky together. Implying zombies are like other races, capable of reproducing, aging, and dying from old age ...

[bquncy]

I always wondered why Cleo, a mummy which is technically a type of zombie, never spoke zombie or did things like Ghoulia did.

[fritzibaden]

Another thing about the ghosts in haunted, why isn't Twyla labeled a ghost and isn’t transitioning into non-solid form like Operetta or Scarah when she‘s coming to the Ghostworld, she is the daughter of the bogeyman and he is also some kind of ghost isn’t he ? it really doesn’t make sense to me now that I am older and rewatched the movies 😂

[riiversins]

One thing that I never got about monster high is Opereta as a character,
in both the phantom of the opera musical and novel the Phantom himself isn't a monster nor a ghost, he's just a man living under the opera house with a facial disfigurement hence the mask. it's just odd to me that considering this opereta is considered a phantom herself

[skurvay]

what also sucks is the fact that they had plans for a Crossover Film between Monster High & Ever After High, but they never made it for Stupid reasons, That film could have been the Perfect Finale to both series before they Rebooted Monster High, but we never got the chance to see the finished film, which totally Bites(no pun intended).

[roroposie]

I was lowkey hoping that you were going to talk about how Robecca Steam's heart is diffrent in frights camera action and ghouls rule, that little part never made any sense to me and it slightly annoyed me. Of course it's a small detail that I think not many noticed but i feel like it would make more sense if they made her have a similar and/or same heart instead of a completly diffrent one

[lincolnlogsforleeches]

8:47 I headcanon that Viperine and the makeup team use cosmetics so Elissabat shows up on camera, contacts and powders and such. That brings up one thing that has always confused me, the inconsistencies with vampire makeup in MH. Draculaura can be wearing a complex eyeshadow design that doesn't show up in a mirror but have blush on her nose that does at the same time. It just can't be explained

[lincolnlogsforleeches]

Something I don't understand about the reboot is that that only kept a few humanoid looking characters. A lot of the characters in the films don't look like dolls at all, there's a slider knockoff, cartoons skeletons, and a plushy fluffy yeti monster that looks really weird next to Abby in the show. It's hard to sell dolls if your characters aren't doll compatible.

[sadaf]

The mummies could’ve been easily explained if they said that only mummy royalty could wake up since back then only Egyptian royalty was mummified

[lawsongebhart-wolford]

Maybe their “monster age” is based on their physical age and all the monsters (except for the immortals) age differently. As for vampires maybe they age like normal humans until about their teen years and then it slows down.

[andymorgade]

I think one of the biggest problems we tend to have is our association with classical lore. For example, it is true that vampire do not reflect in mirrors in the "general" lore and in Monster High, but it does not have to be like that always. Vampires do not have to be intolerant of garlic just because it is what is usually believe.

For example, Ghosts. In general terms, ghost can not have kids but it is obvious that in Monster High they can because although we know that Spectra was human and die, other ones is implied that they are the sons and daughters of other ghosts. This is the same that with zombies.

I think, in general terms, there are two ways of becoming a monster. You can die and transform into that creature in some cases like vampires, ghosts, zombies, mummies and maybe even werewolfs or you can be the son or daughter of a monster. All monster can reproduce, even though for us can be weird.

Anyways, I have written to much. Your video is fantastic! I love it!

PD: Why Scarah and Operetta are not translucid? Simple, they are tecnically not ghosts. Banshees are part of the fae tradition of Irish/Gaelic mythology, they are more connected with fairies than ghosts and although Operetta is the Phantom of the Opera's daughter...the Phantom of the Opera is tecnically not a ghost, it is just a very dramatic name. Why are they see as "ghosts" although they are not? Probably because banshees are very connected with death like ghosts. Operetta is more complicate though.

[kenthuang]

Here’s something that sort of never made sense to me that involves Monster High and Ever After High. At the end of Boo York Boo York, Astra Nova is seen talking to Raven and Apple (I think) and it was made clear that no one in that universe believes that Monster ?High exists until Astra ended up there. Seems logical until you remember that C.A. Cupid originally was a part of Monster High before crossing over to Ever After High. Did Cupid seriously never talk about the Monster world? Or anyone question where this random girl who literally appears out of nowhere came from considering everyone knows everybody and their families’ stories and history? This is a huge plot hole that definitely needed to be explained in either franchise.

[DeviBuster]

8:48 Actually, it's believed that the reason vampires cannot be seen in mirrors is that traditionally, mirrors were made using silver and vampires cannot touch silver as it harms them. As in modern times mirrors aren't made with silver, vampires could hypothetically be seen in them, or at least through other means such as photos or film.
While Monster High clearly doesn't use the silver explanation, since vampire cannot be seen in mirrors and it is safe to assume they use modern mirrors in the school, a similar line of reasoning could be why Elizabat can be filmed.
That or it's just for plot convenience

[DarkRelm]

Ok, I got this, I have been waiting for this!

Check this out:
Using the source material of Operetta's father (yes, we're talking about the OG Phantom of the Opera)

The reason she's both is because he's both. Confusingly depending on which version of the source You've seen (ahem, 2004 movie) he is usually depicted as a fully solid normal human man just with a messed up face from either a Birth Defect, or a horrible fire.

*BUT in the original book!* He was described (the few times he actually appears in his own book-) as being both.

The short version?
Ghosts are ALWAYS non-solid.
Spectres (Hence Spectra) are non solid and can partially become solid/interact with physical objects.
Phantom's though! Can seamlessly transition between the two with little to no trouble! Hence why Operetta and her father are BOTH! :D

The original phantom could walk through walls, and even appeared to fly at one point if memory serves, from when I read the book like 8-10 years ago.

Hence why Operetta is solid but can become a non-solid later in the ghost world.